The View from This Seat

When I was still a teenager, I became a pacifist, and I have remained so for nearly 70 years now. It was perhaps only a little later, and fo...

You know the word musty (having a stale, moldy, or damp smell) and also perhaps the term musky (having an odor of or resembling musk). But ...

  Several months ago, I intended to post a blog article today titled “Happy 100 th Birthday, Dr. Cobb!” He was alive and well at that time,...

A week has now passed since the 47 th president’s first full day in office, and it is hard to express adequately how calamitous these days ...

“The Martyrdom of Felix Manz” was the title of a blog post I made in January 2013. In that post, I noted that on January 21, 1525 , “a grou...

Thanks to my good friend Fred Herren, last year I became acquainted with theologian Thomas Jay Oord. God Can’t (2019) is the only one of hi...

Although it is still December 31 here in the U.S., rather than making this post at around 5:30 a.m., as I normally do, I am posting it at 9:...